Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller

Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller (February 6, 1862 – December 19, 1948) was a German botanist born in Hildburghausen, Thuringia.

He studied horticulture in Potsdam, and in 1886 traveled to the Balkans and Greece on his first botanical expedition.

In 1887-88 he worked at the botanical garden in Belgrade, and during his subsequent career conducted botanical studies widely throughout the Middle East, Asia Minor and North Africa.

Starting with 1888 he curated and distributed large series of duplicate specimens.

The specimens have sometimes collection numbers on printed labels, resembling exsiccatae and found in major herbaria.